I'm creating an API in Go using MongoDB and mgo as storage engine. I wrote sort of an abstraction for GET requests letting user filter the results by fields in query string parameters, but it only works for string fields.
I'm searching for a way to get a field's type with only field name, in order to cast parameter to correct type before searching in collection. Here is the code:
func (db *DataBase) GetByFields(fields *map[string]interface{}, collection string) ([]DataModel, error) {
var res []interface{}
Debug("Getting " + collection + " by fields: ")
for i, v := range *fields {
Debug("=> " + i + " = " + v.(string))
// Here would be the type checking
}
if limit, ok := (*fields)["limit"]; ok {
limint, err := strconv.Atoi(limit.(string))
if err != nil {...} // Err Handling
delete(*fields, "limit")
err = db.DB.C(collection).Find(fields).Limit(limint).All(&res)
if err != nil {...} // Err Handling
} else {
err := db.DB.C(collection).Find(fields).All(&res)
if err != nil {...} // Err Handling
}
resModel := ComputeModelSlice(res, collection)
return resModel, nil
}
With mongodb I can check type with:
db.getCollection('CollectionName').findOne().field_name instanceof typeName
But I can't find a way to perform that with mgo. Any idea?